Emotions and temperature are closely related through embodied processes, and people
seem to associate temperature concepts with emotions. While this relationship is often …

Grounded theories hold sensorimotor activation is critical to language processing. Such
theories have focused predominantly on the dominant senses of sight and hearing …

Bodily sensation mapping (BSM) is a recently developed self-report tool for the assessment
of emotions in which people draw their sensations of activation in a body silhouette …

When gently stroked with velocities between 0.1 and 30 cm/s, participants typically rate
velocities around 3 cm/s as most pleasant, and the ratings follow an inverted u-shape. This …

The effect of physical temperature on cognition and behavior has been the focus of
extensive research in recent years, demonstrating that embodied concepts are grounded in …

Affective haptic interfaces are designed to influence one's emotional and physiological state
via the sense of touch, and may be applied as communication media to increase the sense …

Abstract Space provides the conceptual scaffolding for the understanding of time.
Customarily, the movement of events in time is metaphorically conceptualized from two …

Thermal cues in the car can be used as an alternative to audio and vibration feedback to
lessen the burden on the often overloaded visual channel. This paper presents an …

The ability to sense temperature is vital to our life. It signals the environmental condition,
reflects the physiological conditions of our own body, and generates feelings of …

Abstract Atwood's Stone Mattress is a collection of 'nine wicked tales' about ageing and
revenge. While these tales follow different characters and vary in genre, they are all …